• AmbiguousProps
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    892 months ago

    U.S. District Court Chief Judge James E. Boasberg sentenced Easterday to 30 months in prison as well as 500 hours of community service, along with $2,000 in restitution.

    All of those numbers should be higher.

    • partial_accumen
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      602 months ago

      Agreed but there is an important win here:

      Isreal Easterday, 23, was arrested in Florida in December 2022 and was found guilty in October on several counts, including felony charges of civil disorder and assaulting officers.

      No more gun ownership for him, nor voting rights (in most states). He’s removed himself from the most important parts of political discourse.

      Something else I’m interested in seeing in the future is the sentence of a second conviction for some of these folks in the future when they inevitably decide to try some kind of insurrection again. What does sentencing look like for a two time insurrectionist?

      • @pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com
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        362 months ago

        What does sentencing look like for a two time insurrectionist?

        There is no second failure. I’m pretty sure the pattern goes:

        1. Beer Hall putsch
        2. Light prison sentences and pardons
        3. Political minority take over
        4. Dismantle democracy

        Look for step 3 on Jan 2025.

        • partial_accumen
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          102 months ago

          Do we need to look to Europe for a pattern when we experienced a Civil War right here at home?

          • @AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            112 months ago

            No, but they aren’t looking at history for a pattern that matches current events. They are looking for current events to match to the historical pattern they already chose, which is Hitler’s rise to power.

      • Billiam
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        82 months ago

        No more gun ownership for him, nor voting rights

        Yeah, I suspect the Venn diagram of “Convicted felons” and “Non-Firearm Owners” has a distressingly small overlap.

      • @octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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        82 months ago

        No more gun ownership for him, nor voting rights (in most states). He’s removed himself from the most important parts of political discourse.

        I agree with your sentiment, but neither of those matters to someone who a) doesn’t respect the results of an election and b) is OK with insurrection.

        • partial_accumen
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          142 months ago

          Sure it does. That future traffic stop where they would have gotten away with a misdemeanor speeding ticket now turns into a felony firearms charge in itself.

          I suppose it could be describe as: their footprint for anonymity has drastically shrunk now. Any infraction under the law will be examined in microscopic detail not just by federal officials but even local law enforcement. Any consequence is now magnified 10 fold.

          • @nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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            12 months ago

            It’s sounds good, but in practice we’ve seen that law enforcement, especially local ones, don’t enforce gun restrictions, if they even know about them.

            The recent mass shooter in Maine could have easily been yellow flagged and had his guns removed, but police didn’t. And now the one deemed responsible for ignoring the warnings it’s running for a sheriff leadership position there.

            And how many of the insurrectionists were actual current and former local law enforcement officers?

      • @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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        42 months ago

        Normally I’m against removal of voting rights after a prison term is served, but I’ll gladly make an exception for violent insurrectionists.

    • LanternEverywhere
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      52 months ago

      Sure, but 2.5 years is very real time. Some people might be willing to risk doing similar crimes if they think they’ll only get a couple of months, but if they think they might get a couple of years that’s a very different thing and it might deter many of them